Ghiaccio from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 5 is a variant: the primary manifestation of his Stand power is forming a suit of icy armor around his body for defense. However, the interior is insulated to be comfortably warm since he doesn't have any special resistance to cold. The suit is mostly white, and the Stand is even named "White Album"!

Mr. Freeze in just about any Batman continuity wears an environment protection suit to protect himself from... mild warmth. Due to an accident he can't exist in temperatures above freezing, so the only time he's ever out of his suit is if the area is solidly frozen. The suit also has a practical function of augmenting Freeze's strength and durability, making him a physical match for Batman.

The irony is played up in the animated movie Sub-Zero, where he wears summer gear and swims in simple trunks at his lair in the Arctic.

Polar Boy of the Legion of Super-Heroes goes for the "warm clothing" variant, but there's a twist in the reason why - his people developed their cold powers because their home planet is so hot. So the temperate climate of an Earthlike world is highly uncomfortable to him.

DC Comics superheroine Ice actually pinballs between both ends of this trope, but usually leans closer to the first description; she's mainly seen in a snug bodysuit that completely covers her skin, but it has been cut in avarietyofways.

Killer Frost's costume, which is basically a fur-trimmed swimsuit. This is justified by her powers— she absorbs heat and turns it into cold. The version of her in the page picture from Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, as well as Justice League, uses a bikini and a one-piece, respectively. While she sometimes complains about how cold her powers make her, there's no sense in her wrapping up, because she doesn't generate any heat for warm clothes to trap.

The Flash foe Captain Cold wears a blue and white set of arctic gear, which is pretty helpful since he's a normal human whose shtick is to use a Freeze Ray.

Iceman of the X-Men! Technically he's wearing clothes under his ice-body, but when he's iced up he looks like he's pretty much in the buff.

In the old days, he wasn't. Getting his ice coating broken or melted left him in his boxers. He doesn't get a proper costume until well into his stint with the Champions. As is common for X-characters suffering Clothing Damage, he doesn't get too embarrassed by it.

As a priestess of the Fire-and-Light god Rh'llor, Melissandre of A Song of Ice and Fire always wears the same revealing open dress everywhere. This includes the top of a 700 foot (215 meter) ice wall. In her own words: "I am never cold."

Doc Savage and his trusty men are able to walk briskly across Antarctica in "The South Pole Terror" just by covering their skin with a substance developed by their genius leader.

Live Action TV

In addition to the aforementioned Melisandre, the White Walkers in Game of Thrones wear little if anything (their book counterparts wear literal ice suits as armor).

Video Games

Recurring summon Shiva from the Final Fantasy series has a very regal aura, but rarely wears more than is necessary to retain her modesty.

Ice Man from Mega Man 1 can generate ice and is dressed in a blue and white Arctic gear. It would be justified since his original job was Arctic investigation. In case you're wondering why a robot would need protective clothing, the reason is that frost can still damage machinery, especially if it uses any sort of liquid for cooling (when it's not in arctic weather), hydraulic pressure system for movement, or water tank for it to manipulate ice.

In Mortal Kombat, Sub-Zero and his student Frost wear leather ninja gear that tends to expose quite a bit of flesh. Of course, being ice manipulators, they don't ever get cold.

There are two ice-associated characters in Touhou. Cirno only ever wears a light dress, but Letty Whiterock is probably the most heavily dressed character in the series. She is a Yuki-Onna, a creature of Japanese folklore which is basically a snow siren.

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